⚡️🇺🇸🇮🇱 NEW - James Fishback, currently running for governor in Florida, responds to Israeli media calling him a threat to Israel: [Benjamin Netanyahu is] a depraved little man, to be honest.

⚡🇺🇲 NEW - TRUMP: "We just had a great meeting with the oil executives, we sort of formed a deal." "They're going to be going in with hundreds of billions of dollars in drilling oil and it's good for Venezuela, and it's great for the United States." "A lot of money is going to be made. Oil prices will come down, although they are getting down pretty good now without it, and it was a great meeting we had today with the biggest companies anywhere in the world."

⚡️☂️ END OF DAY - Birmingham experienced a rare phenomenon caused by LED lights from Birmingham City’s football ground reflecting off falling snow, creating a pink haze across the sky

⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - U.S President Trump: I can't think of anybody in history who should get the Nobel prize more than me

⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - S&P 500 closes above 6,966 for the first time in history.

⚡️🇺🇸🇪🇺 NEW - The United States is demanding access to European biometric databases, including fingerprints and facial data, in order to maintain visa exemptions for European Union citizens. The European Commission has been tasked with negotiating quickly, even though this sharing of sensitive data is raising serious concerns about privacy.

⚡️🇺🇸🇻🇪 NEW - The predictive betting platform Polymarket REFUSES to pay out bets on a US "invasion" of Venezuela, despite the military operation that led to the arrest of Nicolás Maduro. According to the site, this was not an INVASION, but a "targeted extraction" without territorial seizure or control. Bettors are denouncing what they see as an opportunistic redefinition of the rules after the fact. Three traders who bet on Maduro's "removal from office" still pocketed around $620,000. A Democratic lawmaker recently proposed a bill to ban government officials from betting on prediction markets, which are considered too susceptible to information leaks.

⚡️💉 NEW - Reported cyberattack takes oncology journal offline that published a peer-reviewed study from Tufts and Brown University exploring links of COVID injections to newly diagnosed or rapidly worsened cancer shortly after COVID injections.

⚡️🇨🇳 NEW - DeepSeek to release next flagship AI model V4 with strong coding ability - The Information.

⚡️🇮🇷 NEW - IRAN: According to several sources, Bank Melli, the country’s largest state-owned bank, has reportedly suspended all cash withdrawals after a bank run amid ongoing anti-regime protests. ATMs and card payment systems are reportedly down, signaling growing financial instability and a deepening crisis as protestors storm the streets.